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Attendees saw multiple AI-powered robots at Viam's NYC Lab in mid-September.
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Attendees saw multiple AI-powered robots at Viam's NYC Lab in mid-September.
AI and software platform provider Viam opened its New York City lab in mid-September for a live demonstration of new AI-powered robots built on its platform.
The demo featured multiple food and beverage demonstrations, and a sanding robot.
Viam said it is a platform that brings modern software engineering to robotics, providing the complete software toolkit to build and scale intelligent machines. Modular and hardware-agnostic, Viam said it can connect in minutes to everything from small sensing devices to complex industrial systems, uniting AI models and cloud services with working robots across industries.
The event showed how robotics can be developed faster, more accessible, and in more varied forms when the right software infrastructure is in place, according to the company. Viam said it abstracts away the hardest parts of development, lowering the barrier to entry. This allows teams to solve real-world problems without years of custom engineering, large teams or deep resources.
At the event, Viam showcased Gambit, an AI cooking assistant created by entrepreneur Nicole Maffeo in collaboration with company founder and CEO Eliot Horowitz.
Viam said that Gambit can see the stove in real time, sense heat, read any recipe and provide users step-by-step guidance. Guests saw how Gambit interpreted a steak recipe and coached an attendee on how to cook it to a medium-rare temperature.
Another demo featured a dual-armed wine-pouring robot: one arm held the glass while the other poured. Using computer vision, the system detected glasses wherever attendees placed them and dynamically generated motion plans across joints to pour safely and accurately.
Viam said the demo highlighted real-time perception, adaptive motion planning and human-in-the-loop control, capabilities central to robotics in unpredictable settings like factories, farms and service environments.
Viam said it has been collaborating with Viking Yachts on R&D to explore robotic sanding offerings for fiberglass parts, with the long-term goal of applying the technology to boat hulls themselves.
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